Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway (Vercel): A model gateway that bills at provider list price with no token markup, supports BYOK without a fee, and charges for add-ons such as custom reporting and team-wide ZDR. Protocols fronted: model APIs. Price read 4 November 2026: Provider list price, no markup.

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What it does not do

• Does not proxy MCP tool calls.
• BYOK spend is excluded from gateway budgets.

Dated facts

• AI Gateway charges no markup and no platform fee on tokens; BYOK carries no fee but needs purchased credits. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)
• The free tier covers a subset of models with lower per-model rate limits and returns 429 when exceeded. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)
• When a BYOK request fails, the gateway retries with system credentials and bills that fallback to the credits balance. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)
• Custom Reporting costs 0.075 USD per 1,000 tag writes and 5 USD per 1,000 queries. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)
• Team-wide zero data retention and the team-wide provider allowlist each cost 0.10 USD per 1,000 requests. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)
• Trace Drains bill 0.05 USD per 1,000 traces and 0.50 USD per GB of egress on Pro and Enterprise. (vercel.com, read 4 November 2026)

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